dips

[tired zodiac]

@warm thunder

@pure sparrow

I can normally do sets of 20 reps pretty comfortably

Just recently

It hurts a lot more

[warm thunder]

Looks pretty good. You seem to maintain scapular depression

[pure sparrow]

dont look down it puts extra stress on ur sternum

i think that was one of my mistakes

[warm thunder]

Maybe less protraction at lockout

[tired zodiac]

Straight ahead?

[tired zodiac]

So no full lockout?

[warm thunder]

No. Lockout fully

And depress scap

[tired zodiac]

Got it

[warm thunder]

Bump

I can't relate to the sternum part so listen to sock I guess

[tired zodiac]

Yeah I’m taking a week or two off to focus on deep push-ups and sternum rehab them I’m going to try going back into dips.

Thanks anyway guys dips feel better now

[pure sparrow]

do some chest stretching too

[tired zodiac]

Any reccomendations?

[pure sparrow]

theres a stretch I found where u put ur elbows on the wall above ur head and lean into it

lemme try to find a pic

[tired zodiac]

You mean arm at a 90 degree bend elbow resting on wall and lean into it?

[pure sparrow]

i look goofy so i cropped it

but this

that makes me feel good during pain flare ups usually

[tired zodiac]

Wait so do you have costocondritis?

Or just dip pain?

[pure sparrow]

i believe costo but never been to a doctor

[tired zodiac]

So is it permanent?

[pure sparrow]

uhhh idk tbh

we will see tho if it goes away someday

dips dont hurt as much as they used to tho

i just dont do them rn coz im planche training and think pushups are superior in every way

[tired zodiac]

How so?

Acc u don’t need to answer that

But yea thanks anyway I appreciate it

[pure sparrow]

i mean if ur not training weighted dips i think u can get pretty good chest work with ring flyes and deep pushusp or pppus n stuff

[tired zodiac]

Nah im tryna get weighted dips that’s the problem

I just love the exercise

[pure sparrow]

ah well then dips will def be more helpful

ive been doing planche training

[tired zodiac]

I’m gonna take a week break focus on pull and abs then hspu for a week then go back into push workouts normally

I’ll do rehab in the meantime

[pure sparrow]

tbh i was just stretching a lot but im not a doctor at all this is just my experience

[tired zodiac]

I’ll get checked out if it kills or something

Thanks anyway I appreciate your help man

Best of luck with the planche

[tired zodiac]

😳

[fiery zealot]

If it helps at all, mine eventually went away, but it felt like a long time. A long time first of just doing static holds.

Then I had to use lots of warm up sets when I started dipping again, to avoid pain when adding weight.

I'm pretty sure I'm all good now, but I haven't trained dips much in quite some months.

[tired zodiac]

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